We have three Hyper-V 2012 R2 hosts connected to a NetApp FAS2240 unit running ONTAP 8.2 (Cluster Mode) over SMB 3.0. We have everything working properly except backups (we're unable to get VSS working properly.) Does anybody have any experience with this?

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We have three Hyper-V 2012 R2 hosts connected to a NetApp FAS2240 unit running ONTAP 8.2 (Cluster Mode) over SMB 3.0. We have everything working properly except backups (we're unable to get VSS working properly.) Does anybody have any experience with this?

I've heard from people that Netapp isn't implementing the full spec of 3.0 only the basics. There may be some limitations vs. Windows file servers.

We're working with NetApp now, but it's slow going. Veeam is the backup vendor, but we've eliminated them as the issue and are working directly with VSS from Powershell. I just wanted to see if anybody else has been down this road yet. The stability and failover are flawless; we're just having an issue getting proper backups. (We can get snaps out of the NetApp, but VSS isn't being used, so they're crash consistent only.)

We built a 2012R2 test box and used it to share out a folder with the VM files, and backups from that share worked flawlessly, so it must be something with the NetApp. We've even gone so far as to completely blow away and reload ONTAP from scratch and reconfigure everything exactly to their documentation.

We have three Hyper-V 2012 R2 hosts connected to a NetApp FAS2240 unit running ONTAP 8.2 (Cluster Mode) over SMB 3.0. We have everything working properly except backups (we're unable to get VSS working properly.) Does anybody have any experience with this?

Do you have cluster node switch working properly? What do you use as a backup app?